Science fiction Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

12 Science fiction quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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Vonnegut’s sharp satire and dark humor surface in twelve succinct observations about speculative worlds. The collection captures his knack for turning futuristic ideas into biting social commentary.

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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

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“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”

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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.”

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What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so…

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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly…

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Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.…

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“That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which…

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The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

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“Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar crises in similar ways. They had both…

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“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to…

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“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

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“People aren't supposed to look back.”

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“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.”

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“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in…

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“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on…

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“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it”

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

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“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.”

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“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to…

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“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that…

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“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a…

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“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent…

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Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,…

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“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.”

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“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty…

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